How would /sci/ define 'one'? Without using words such as 'single', 'unit' or any other numbers.
a thing that isnt accompanied by more things
>>8152587
a thing
I thought about calling it the number of elements in a set in which you can't create a random pair of elements. But then you have to define a pair.
If the brain creates our reality, how can it be in that same reality.
How can the brain create reality, while at the same time be inside of it.
how can a universe exist within itself? how does a set of all sets contain itself?
Makes no sense
> create reality
delete this dumb shitty unfunny thread please
>>8152333
No reality without an observer
>>8152331
In the same way that an operating system can be inside the operating environment it created.
Could they have really built them with the technology they had?
>>8151334
Yes.
>>8151337
Do you really think so? I've heard on the history channel that it would be practically impossible. They would need some anti-gravity device to lift up the huge slabs. Not to mention the funky hieroglyphics that show light bulbs.
>>8151342
I cant even tell if you guys get a kick out of this or you are legitimately stupid.
>your school
>what you think of it
>your major/degree
>what you think of it
>>8148479
>University of Arkansas
Entire perimeter of campus is covered in churches. Kinda retarded budget. Currently spending a shitload of money to expand a stadium when they can't even fill the seats they have now.
>Civil Engineering
Pretty chill. Most classmates get shit done and immediately head to the bars a few feet down the road. Everyone seems to shit themselves at the thought of anything Chemistry/fluid though
>>8148479
>University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Small but fun. It's not Madison.
>Electrical Engineering
Too many Asians, not enough poon.
>University of Tennessee
Fun place in a fun city, but please god stop all the damn construction.
>Mechanical Engineering
My major is the catch-all for every idiot who doesn't know which engineering to take.
Time to share experiences that absolutely triggered us... that are related to /sci/.
This is fresh out of the oven niggers, literally just happened
>Went to the doctor to get a vaccine
>Guy who was my pediatrician
>He's known me since my first days
>Asks me what I am studying in university
>I reply 'Bachelors in Mathematics'
>some random talk about how my grades are doing. I tell him I am top of every class
>Really? You must be a genius. Why aren't you studying something harder?
>I get absolutely triggered but just let out a fake laugh and say nothing.
>Something like medicine!
>Get PTSD flashbacks to all of the times I've shat on pre-meds in here. Thinking to myself it this nigga is serious
I luckily got out of there alive. How do people get the impression that mathematics is easy? Is it because he is a doctor and has been living in a daily circle jerk of doctors being intellectually superior?
If you ask me we should enhance pre-university mathematics classes. Teach the fucking kids how to count with the set theoretical construction of the natural numbers. Make mathematics literally impossible to pass in high school so that no one ever dares to call mathematics easy ever again.
Fuck am I mad.
>>8148421
you really do seem mad.
that being said, and all your irrational bullshit aside, your circle jerk assumption is spot on. med schoolers are amongst the most horrific of assholes, together with law schoolers. they both think they have the monopoly on difficult studies when they are really just learning shit others have discovered by heart whilst doing a woodwork apprenticeship on humans.
medicine is not science. it's a laboratory for science.
>after astonomy class
>be talking to girl
>"so what did you learn today anon?"
>"just cosmology stuff"
>"Oh my girlfriend went to school for that!"
>"really"
>"yeah she's, like, the best hair stylest I know now"
Somebody please kill my face
>>8148421
>Physiology student specializing in neuroscience
>Compulsory psychology courses
>Lecturer supports Freudian psychoanalysis and new age crap
>He says 'I don't think our behavior is caused by just neurons puking out chemicals. How would you feel if you were just a pile of chemicals?'
>Continues to talk shit about subconsciousness, motivation and desires
>Dismisses progresses in cognitive research
>Talks about how there is no objective reality
>I've lost my faith in this neuroscience programme
>Searching for other programmes at the moment
Why haven't we ever drilled down to the earth's core?
>>8147436
because it's summer
>>8147436
I think it would it explode
>>8147436
That's where skeletons live.
As a species, we're not nearly united enough for a threat like that.
a lot of /mu/tants are retards, apparently
>one boot
>one horseshoe
listen right here u fucking little shit
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Shitty lab partner stories? I've been really lucky to have cooperative and good-humored lab partners up until this point, but now I'm having problems in chem.
>Have three partners (more than needed for the lab experiment)
>Lab tables are designed to split us up, but we have to work together anyway
>Personally very attentive to detail, cautious about gathering data
>People on the other side of the table just want to barrel ahead in the assignment and get out early
>They end up doing most of the work, and doing it wrong
>I'm only able to get reliable measurements on half the trials
>When I point out that they don't have any methodology, they bitch at me for "not paying attention"
>Being attentive to the variables and measurement techniques is "not paying attention"
>I get fed up and decide that I'll do the whole thing next time, and they can just deal with me being slower
Utterly bizarre, I've never had lab partners before who wanted to rush through everything. It is Gen Chem 1 though. Physics >>> shit >>> Gen chem
That's a lot of people in early chem. There's a lot of people there just taking the class because they need it and have no interest in chemistry whatsoever. Once you get to O Chem though I'm sure you'll have mostly serious people.
>>8144778
>There's a lot of people there just taking the class because they need it and have no interest in chemistry whatsoever
I'm one of those. I guess I'm just surprised because I've gotten used to taking courses that are past the pleb filter.
>>8144778
Ochem can be even worse cause all the bio majors gotta take it. Quantitative analysis is the shit though. Good lab partners all around.
Are there any good educational YouTube channels?
>pic possibly related
Numberphile
I think Numberphile can get pretty good but it's more informative than educational.
I don't know if that make sense, but what I'm trying to say is that you could watch a certain video and learn 'about', say, graph theory. But you aren't really going to 'learn' graph theory.
Vsauce is garbage.
>>8139233
I think Veritasium is pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium
Is it true that grains, even whole, are bad for you?
>>8138706
yes, but grains are cheap and being poor and starving is worse
>>8138706
get the fuck outta here with your gluten-is-unhealthy shit
People will look back on this in 100 years and laugh.
>>8149990
Only two chinks in the class?
>>8149996
50% not counting the teacher. Pretty good to any SJW.
>people 100 years from now browsing the 4chan archives
They'll know you were a faggot, OP
Why so many smart people dismiss philosophy?
http://qz.com/627989/why-are-so-many-smart-people-such-idiots-about-philosophy/
philosophy has the same credibility and use as religion
now get the fuck out >>>/lit/
>>8151865
because its a sudo science
>>8151870
>sudo science
You don't have access to this file
Dr. Negro really startin' to get on my nerves, yo.
Yeah, the deep misunderstanding of science and what it's capable of is getting old.
>>8147233
DNA tests confirm, it's not her body.
>>8147251
You should probably be cutting out a lot of microscopic holes for all of the bacteria if you're that stupid. See also chimerism and a bunch of other shit you're probably too dumb to know about.
sorry for a meme math thread but the one on /r9k/ is getting out of hand
i'm am not smart
four possible outcomes at first
NN
NY
YN
YY
one has to be a crit so it goes to
NY
YN
YY
so, with all the information the question provided, it's 1/3, r-right?
also does this problem have a name?
>>8146144
That is correct, if the problem said that the first one is a crit then it would have been 50/50. The point is that you are not forcing an attack to be a crit, you are eliminating all the cases where there are no crits
>>8146144
We are not having this fucking thread again, check the archives.
>>8146144
1/2, either it happens or it doesn't.
What branch of physics,math or science in general is the closest to philosophy in the sense that both of them are trying to find the meaning of life?
>>8143942
But sir, isn't life meaningless ?
>>8143971
Nobody knows yet.
Cmoooon /sci/
